Photographs, Words and Friends

My name is Bill Stroud and I write and take pictures.  I spent 32 years in the newspaper business, then five years working for a software company that served the newspaper industry. For the last six years, I have operated a small photo finishing business in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, not far from where I live.  My wife and I have three adult daughters and, at the moment, three grandchildren.   I am living with advanced prostate cancer, which has kept me away from the shop since November 2006.  I have used the time to pursue photographic projects and to write a book.  In the process, I have been reconnecting with the people I grew up with in the Mississippi Delta region of Southeast Arkansas.  I live in a great neighborhood, surrounded by wonderful friends and now I have an on-line community of neighbors and friends as well.